I am looking forward to Monday's CoLA Research Conference. The event will run continuously from 1:15-5:00 p.m. in the Millett Atrium. Please join us for all or any part of this scintillating public event highlighting CoLA faculty research developed by the following faculty who were on professional development leave in the 2014-15 academic year:

Time 1:15	Name Kristin Sobolik, Dean  College of Liberal Arts	Presentation Title Welcome and Opening Remarks
	Linda Caron, Associate Dean for Faculty and External Affairs and Moderator	Introduction of speakers
1:20	Erik Banks, Religion, Philosophy, and Classics	Realistic Empiricism: Some Open Problems
1:45	Jonathan Reed Winkler,  History	Plexus: American Security and International Communications, 1920 to 1945
2:10	Christopher Chaffee, Music	Four Prayers-The Joys and Frustrations of Making a Traditional Classical Music Recording in a High-Tech World
2:35	Nancy Mack, English	Working-Class Students Need to Write about Their Lives
3:00	December Green, CoLA Outstanding Faculty Awardee Political Science	Contentious Politics in Brazil and China: Brazil
3:25	Kelli Zaytoun, English	Tracing the Path and Posthumanist Implications of Ia Naguala/the Shapeshifter in the Works of Gloria Anzaldúa
3:50	Jeannette Marchand,  Religion, Philosophy, and Classics	Investigations in the Greek Countryside
4:15	Kristin Sobolik, Dean College of Liberal Arts	Introduction of Provost
	Thomas A. Sudkamp, Provost  Chief Academic Officer and Vice President of Curriculum and Instruction	Greetings and Remarks
4:20	Liam Anderson, Keynote Speaker and CoLA Outstanding Research Awardee Political Science	Autonomy as a Solution to Ethnic Problems: Some Insights into the Case of Iraq

 

Tomorrow is Wright State's fourth annual Faculty and Staff Appreciation Night. The festivities include the 3:00 p.m. Women's basketball game versus Detroit, a 5:00 p.m. Appreciation Event in the McLin Gym - CoLA is sponsoring the Go Fish Booth again - and the 7:00 p.m. Men's basketball game versus Northern Kentucky. I will be hosting some of our valued CSIC leadership donors in CoLA's Suite 206 for the men's basketball game. If you plan to attend, I hope you will stop by and say 'hello!'

I'm so excited that The Musical Theatre Initiative, led by Joe Deer, will be bringing Tony Award-winning Broadway composer Jason Robert Brown to Dayton next week as part of the yearlong MUSICALS ROCK! celebration of contemporary Pop and Rock musicals. Brown will offer an intimate evening of stage and film favorites at the Victoria Theatre on February 25 at 8:00 p.m. Faculty and staff tickets are available by calling Ticket Center Stage at (937) 228-3630. Ask for Faculty/Staff pricing. On February 26 he will visit WSU's campus to present a lecture on the craft of writing for the musical theater at 10:00 a.m. in the Herbst Theatre in the Creative Arts Center. At 1:00 p.m. he will do an interview with Joe Deer and take questions from the audience. All on-campus activities are free and open to the public.